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Dhotre commended the efforts of premier institutions during COVID-19 by promoting the development of test kits, ventilators.
Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre launched a Rapid Antigen Test kit for COVID-19 developed by IIT Delhi today. The Rapid Antigen Test kit has been developed by the IIT Delhi researchers led by Dr Harpal Singh, professor at the Institute’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering.
Congratulating the IIT Delhi researchers and their manufacturing partners on the launch of the test kit, Sanjay Dhotre said, “I am confident that this technology will revolutionize the Covid test availability in the country. I am glad to know that the kit has been developed entirely using the internal resources at IIT Delhi.”
Dhotre also complimented the researchers Prof Harpal Singh and Dr Dinesh Kumar and thanked IIT Delhi for helping the nation in becoming Atmanirbhar in fighting the pandemic using indigenously developed technologies and made in India products.
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Dhotre commended the efforts of premier institutions during COVID-19 by promoting the development of test kits, ventilators. He lauded the efforts of IIT Delhi for promoting research and development in the field of technology.
Speaking on this occasion, Prof V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi said, “IIT Delhi had in July 2020 launched a Rs 399 RT PCR kit, which helped bring the RTPCR test costs to the current level. Using the technologies developed in the Institute, over 8 Million PPE kits have been supplied so far. With the launch of this Antigen based rapid test kit, we hope to make the diagnostics easy and affordable for the rural areas.”
Prof. Harpal Singh mentioned the salient features of the technology, as certified by the ICMR.
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